Welcome to Litsy!

Todd Colby's Tremble and Shine moves with dazzling energy through the blasted landscape of modern life, from the grinning skull of Poe to Lenny Bruce's adenoids to a rhythm of repetition that is entirely his own. The anger that drives the world is Colby's muse. Here he addresses everything from the acid-trip ethos of an outdoor camping trip to the need to righteously rock. "I punctuate my spasms with gasps of chrome breath, / breathing metal, exhaling oxide, making squirt what cannot / be washed and/or left in an empty chair."